bipolarber wrote:
Of course, if we want to talk about stories we'd like to make into films...

"A Walk In the Sun" was a damned good story. About a female astronaut who crash lands on the moon, and has to keep walking ahead of the moon's night side, in order to keep her space suit powered up while she awaits rescue... Written by the same guy who wront "Mars Crossing."

The author you're thinking of is Geoffrey Landis. Both The Disappearance and Blood Music were or have been under film option before, and in addition to Tau Zero, Anderson's Brain Wave would also make a good movie. I was really hoping Gregory Benford would get some of his works adapted. Jan De Bont had optioned the movie rights for COSM, and Michael Cassutt wrote either spec scripts or outlines for adaptations of THE MARTIAN RACE and the Galactic Center series for TV which never went anywhere.

Cassutt and Joe Dante also conceived a great idea for a TV series which was sadly never sold. It would adapt pulp stories from the thirties through the fifties, but instead of trying to update them, would film as if they were adaptations made in the time they were written. With Folded Hands was one of those stories, and I think Cassutt also wrote a script adaptation for a Clifford Simak story as part of the series. It may have been Way Station, but I think maybe that Cassutt had planned that as a separate project.


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